[Andrew Hospodor]

Originally Posted by Cory

Um, it was a bomb threat, what do you expect them to do?

They had to cover all angles. Someone said a bomb is in the school. You can't just dismiss that. 9 times out of 10 a bomb threat is fake (probably more than that, really), but it doesn't bother me at all if they have to go through people's backpacks to make sure that there is indeed no bomb on the campus.

If a bomb went off because some local police force didn't search backpacks, everyone would be screaming bloody murder and demanding that all bags be searched any time there was a threat.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't

Once you walk onto a public school campus, you basically give yourself up to be searched. They can search your back pack if they want to without consent. Thus, this is perfectly legal, unless you were at a private school. In which case I am sure that in the student rule book there is a small messege that says something along the lines of "we reserve the right to search any student or students belongs at anytime." This is for situations just like this. Though I don't agree to sacrifice freedoms for security (cough patriotact cough) I do believe that when it is drawn out in such a way that the person is willingly going to school and knows a possible search could occur, then no constitutional right has been infracted upon.

Again, just some thoughts...